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voting ends February 01, 2013, 12:00AM

Hanauma Bay is one of the most popular tourist destinations on the island of O`ahu, Hawai`i. I took this panorama with the initial beta model GigaPan unit, and a 8 megapixel Canon S5-IS P&S camera. With a 12x optical zoom, and a 1.5x tele-extender, the effective focal length is approximately 650 mm.
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This is a redo of an existing gigapan. This time, I've reworked the originals as if they were taken on B&W panchromatic film with a dark red filter, adjusting the exposure so that the clouds and the white water of the waterfalls are pure white. This loses a lot of shadow detail due to the limitations of dynamic range o...

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Re-stitched to fix artifacts in the central building. See gigapan.org/gigapans/37405/ for what the stitcher does.
Did the building by hand in photoshop and merged with the sides done in the stitcher. The original images were each centered on a window in the building, and the stitcher really wanted to think th...

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Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and a significant National Historic Site by the government of Canada. It was a British colonial town established in 1753 to introduce Protestant colonists into the Colony when it was largely populated only by Catholic French Acadians an...

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Berat Castle is built on a rocky hill on the left bank of the river Osum and is accessible only from the south. After being burned down by the Romans in 200 B.C. the walls were strengthened in the fifth century under Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II, and were rebuilt during the 6th century under the Emperor Justinian an...

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View over Constance (Germany) from one tower of the cathedral.
On the left side the biggest part of the Bodensee (Obersee), on the other side the smallest one (Untersee). In the background Kreuzlingen (Switzerland)... no visible border.
Source: 170 freehand photos :)

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Halong Bay's spectacular limestone islands--nearly 2000 of them--stretch to every horizon from the top of Dao Titop, an island that has a staircase leading up the steep slopes to an overlook at the top. This is an unparalleled oceanscape for exploring by chartered junk and kayak. Hidden floating fishing villages in qui...